Season with salt, pepper, lemon pepper, lemon juice, and rub with butter. Wrap in foil and bake at 325 degrees F. for approximately 45 minutes. Remove foil, add more butter and brown. For barbecued armadillo, baste with barbecue sauce over grill after removing foil.

Sniper, When I was younger I used to day work from time to time for a big ranch outside of Okeechobee. They had a kitchen to feed the hired help and they fed us palmetto chicken (armadillo) a couple times a week. Pegleg

Armadillos CAN have leprosy, but that does not mean that they all do.In Texas, about 4% to 10% of armadillos seem to have it.In Louisiana, up to 53% have been found to be infected.In Florida, 3 thousand armadillos were examined over 12 years. None were found to be infected.

Armadillos are often used in the study of leprosy, since they, along with mangabey monkeys, rabbits and mice (on their footpads), are among the few known non-human animal species that can contract the disease systemically. They are particularly susceptible due to their unusually low body temperature, which is hospitable to the leprosy bacterium.

~ Medical research was conducted by the US Public Health Service, but was NOT verified by the CDC.

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